Muslims believe that once before Islam was a religion, their were other religions, but all fell under the category; Tawheed. Tawheed was believing one god, which was in what they believed, Allah (swt). Since all of the following religions have a specific book that used to fall under Tawheed, they are the people of the book.
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The Choctaw people believed that two hunters help an hungry woman standing on a mound by giving her a measly hawk which was their day's catch. The woman repaid their kindness by disappearing into a corn on the mound and thereby blessing them.
The Mayan people believed that humans were created from maize, after two unsuccessful attempts to create humans out of mud or wood.
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Carthage's wealth and power rested primarily on its strategic location, which provided access to abundant fertile land and major trade routes. All remaining Carthaginian dependencies, as well as other Phoenician city-states, came under Roman rule by the first century AD.
